The space is further embellished with paintings and drawings by local artists and ready-made objects, giving it the slightly risque feel of a squatter den.

Instead, Ms. Tajima-Pena locates people and tells their stories with the sharp eye and intelligence of an artist presenting ready-made objects.

He often used ready-made objects in his art.

Instead of using ready-made objects and materials to create textural effects, he used paint to imitate them, essentially reversing his experiments with collage.

In such an environment, you quickly came to realise the value of ready-made objects.

Some of his sculptures are done as "ready-made" objects and related to the tradition of "Dada" in their absurd humor and strange beauty of animals with human eyes.

His works frequently deploy different materials and techniques, from ready-made objects to more traditional media, such as graphite, ink, gold leaf and mirrored elements.

Ms. Simiola does custom work for furniture stores and lighting shops as well as for private customers and she also carries a varied line of ready-made objects.

Since the late 1970's Ms. Sterbak's polymath methods have included traditional and mechanical sculpture, performance, video, photography and borrowed ready-made objects injected into multimedia installations.

Originally abstract painters, in the 1960's they turned from producing objects to exploring a multisensory, kinetic, ready-made object: the body.